Reincarnated As A Footballer - 4 Invitation

Manchester, United Kingdom

The Manager Sir Alex Ferguson was the first to be informed of this letter. The reason? Because it came from India. Firstly this sort of treatment would not be given for such fan letters but this was an exception; again the reason was that it came from a country like India where nearly all of the population of the country was cricket crazy or would watch only the World Cup supporting Brazil or Argentina because of Pele’s heroics in the 1960s and Maradona’s in 1980s respectively. That said, these patches of people were still in the minority only. Even, only a handful of Premiership matches were broadcasted and still if people in this case a young boy wrote letters to their favourite stars, it was indeed shocking. So, he asked the assistant coach to inform Ronaldo to meet him after the training was over.

After the training sessions were over, Ronaldo immediately went to Sir Alex’s room. After looking at the letter, he was astonished. That was to be expected as he came to Manchester United only a few months before and he had already got a fan letter that too from India. So he immediately wrote back another letter as asked by his manager and gave it back to him.

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One Week Later,

Kolkata, India

Vinod was jumping in joy after receiving a reply which he did not expect at all. After skimming through the contents of the letter he was spellbound. Then in order to not let his cover blown, he immediately went back to his father and asked him to read the letter for him which he readily complied. The contents of the letter was —

Dear Vinod,

I was very happy receiving your letter and of course how can I not send a reply to you who has written me such a good letter all the way from India? So as a message of thanks we from Manchester United are going to arrange you the tickets to come and meet us here in Manchester and you are going to be part of the pre match practice sessions with our players on our match against Manchester City on the 14th of next month. Of course your hotel and airfare costs will be paid by us. Hope to meet you soon

Cristiano Ronaldo

After reading, he was on cloud nine. He quickly folded the letter, kept it inside the torn envelope and stored it back in his collections. He was very much eager to visit Old Trafford and he quickly began planning his schedule for his Manchester trip.

So for the next month in order to make a solid impression in front of the players and staff, he started training seriously and with the help of his Virtual Reality Assistant, his skills improved by leaps and bounds. The one month passsed very quickly and at last it was the day of their departure. Just before he left his home with his father, he checked his stats which were as follows —

NAME : — Vinod Gaekwad

AGE : — 5 years

NATIONALITY : — Indian

BASIC STATS —-

HEALTH : — 100

PACE : — 15

SHOOTING : — 10

PASSING : — 10

DRIBBLING : — 9

PHYSICAL : — 7

DEFENCE : — 4

They had a comfortable journey from Kolkata to Manchester as they were given First Class tickets which again they did not expect. As soon as they reached Manchester a club representative accompanied them to their accomodation. The match was three days later and so they had the first day for adjusting to the time zone and overcoming the jet lag. The second day was to visit the tourist attractions in Manchester which mainly were the many museums present. The third day was the match day.

The first two days were well spent and as usual for Vinod, the time went by very quickly on the first two days. This was the Match Day and luckily the match they were going to see was the Manchester Derby — Manchester United vs Manchester City. The Red Devils were the clear favourites to win the match as they were strong both ability wise and financially too.

This was his day. The club representative escorted them from the hotel to the Old Trafford Stadium, the home stadium of Manchester United and they stepped in. This was the first time in both his lives that he entered the players area of any stadium. Who knew that everyone in the stadium were going to witness the first glimpse of the legend who was going to dominate the world football in the coming years.